What do you all think of Linkslist/Directories using the Nofollow tag?

[Mr Spock]

Works both ways imho - if you want to put nofollows on links to my freesites, then I should be able to put nofollows on your recips links.

[Linkster]

The third way Ive seen recently with a few LLs is they have the robots meta set to noindex,nofollow for category pages - and some that just set the nofollow - of course no one knows the effects on a particular search engine and what they really do when running into any of these three different methods mentioned here despite what they "say" publicly

[jayeff]

Originally Posted by Linkster

no one knows the effects on a particular search engine and what they really do when running into any of these three different methods mentioned here despite what they "say" publicly

Exactly. In that other thread someone explained what Google intended nofollow to be used for, but it not only quickly got abused among link exchangers, but also for manipulating internal PR distribution. By last summer if not before, the idea was already out there that BigG was now penalizing such abuses.

I played safe and took the tags off, because it is one of those things which isn't hard for a spider to spot and Google aren't big on being manipulated. But whether they have reacted yet, is anyone's guess in reality.